Beethoven 5: Memorial Concert
Roukens, Dove and Beethoven: three ways to defy fate.
What do you do when fate knocks at the door and devastates your world? Do you resist it, in the spirit of Beethoven’s indomitable Fifth? Do you attain an enlightened state of detachment, as in Jonathan Dove’s otherworldly beautiful Hojoki, with countertenor Hugh Cutting as the ideal soloist? Or, like Joey Roukens, do you find a new answer? Food for thought, 87 years after the bombing of Rotterdam.
Programme & performers
Roukens
New work (commission, world premiere)
Dove
Hojoki (Dutch premiere)
Beethoven
Fifth Symphony



unearthly beautiful.

Hugh Cutting, a countertenor with real heft to his voice, wins all hearts.
